QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr

I, too, am old enough to remember when the entire National Conversation™️ focused on the need for Democrats to Tone Down The Rhetoric because of fears about Political Violence.

Narrator: Because the members of the administration were selected not based on ability to do the job, but instead on fame, access, support of its leader, and general sycophancy, there was in fact nobody who was remotely competent.

is there any one fuckin person in this administration even remotely competent jesus fuckin christ

Just noting again that the non-obvious reason to try to tell the truth - as previous administrations, even not-so-nice ones, tried to at least APPEAR to be doing - is that at some point, maybe not the 10th lie, maybe not the 100th, but eventually, people will start to ASSUME you are lying.

“I'm not making this up about Trump knowing. He says it: based on what I witnessed recently by being the first President in History to attend a Supreme Court session … they will be ruling against us on Birthright Citizenship" …how do you state that so plainly unless you were told …?”

Villains sick of being vilified? Have they tried stop being villians?

"We built the Torment Nexus, and we believe it is acting like it did because of "Do Not Build the Torment Nexus""

Noticing that I’m not even looking at Tr*th S*cial posts any more - they’re news-free, insight-free, tell me nothing about the person posting them, and the most likely effect is I’ll be angry about something that I can’t do anything about.

And now I’ve just run into the Jennifer Aniston episode on 30 Rock and it’s amazing. She does what she does so well that it elevates everyone around her.

For various reasons Office Space is on and Jennifer Aniston really adds a special something to it.

Wanna use this as my motto

I have houseplants that have a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than Pastor Robert Jeffress, a lover of money and spokesperson for an adulterous bearer of false witness who venerates himself, and has killed thousands of people—either through his COVID incompetence or war crimes.

My “this is not a golden calf” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

"What if we hosted the largest tournament in the entire world so everyone would come to our country, bringing in massive revenues?" "But, what if we ALSO arrested everyone who arrived, to show how tough and smart we are?"

Just ran into this again and was seriously disappointed in Past Me for not following the author immediately.

This turned out to be .... prescient.

This really can't be repeated often enough.

Here to endorse “the current, possibly last, president of the United States.”

It’s important that those who have enabled President Trump suffer because of him. It’s the only way they might, possibly, learn.

War is hell.

The Happy Endings episode “In the Heat of the Noche” really needs to be more ingrained in our culture, so that I can easily explain to people what it felt like to get up for the gym this morning and find out it was only 2:30 AM

It has been months since any of this has been funny to me. I alternate between disgust, anger, and embarrassment.

Actually I don't find it funny at all. We've wasted $72 billion, seriously made life harder and more expensive for those in our country that can least afford it. It's a debacle that infuriates me.

Wise and well-considered decisions can be unpopular, of course, but so can idiotic ones that go against the better angels that the country aspires towards.

TIL that when Danny Devito calls the media and the police after his wife is kidnapped in Ruthless People, and Judge Reinhold is watching the TV news in disbelief, the person heard reading the news is: Phil Hartman.

The American military is going to turn around sometime in the next six months on this Iran shit and try to foist it on Grandpa and people love them and it'll mostly work but don't forget they didn't put any brakes on this shit and they wanted it too

Iran has acquired its nuke in the form of shutting down the Strait of Hormuz with mines and cheap drones.

I see this, and see Callais and two things become very clear: 1) all of these states need apportionment reduced or removed via section 2 of the 14th. They have needed this for years, decades even. 2) the court packing and scotus reforms should be referred to using VRA and Civil Rights language.

Saw some lovely echinaceas in a yard and was instantly back in that episode of Undeclared where a college guy is so enamored of a girl who’s big on “natural healing” that when he gets sick he won’t give up on her assistance, no matter how much worse he continues to get.

The removal of the White House gilt decor needs to be a prime time public event.

This is the Way.

This really does seem like where the Butlerian Jihad would really start: gullible men embarrassed by “machines in the form of a human mind.”

Considering that Daily Wire are going bust almost three weeks after Péter Magyar announced that Hungary will no longer fund CPAC, it's at least plausible that Ben Shapiro was more or less dependent on Orbán cash to stay afloat.

FRANKLIN, TN conservative David French: “I’ve changed my perception of the lingering severity of race problems. We adopted a child from Ethiopia- maybe naive: didn’t think she’d have a different experience than our older kids. There wasn’t a school she wasn’t called the N word.”

Iran planning to wait until after the midterms, when the economic pain really bites and Trump's party likely has less power, then see if they can get a better deal? That's very logical. Strategic. The sort of longer-term thinking the US currently lacks. And with Trump blockading and lying, why not?

For various reasons Office Space is on and Jennifer Aniston really adds a special something to it.

What, he’s got two weeks to go.

Lee was a fucking traitor to this country & a disgusting slave owning racist. This country was built on the backs of slaves. Slaves like the ones that lee owned & resisted freeing until he was forced to by a deadline. He was also known to severely beat them. So a big FUCK YOU TO LEE & TRUMP!

On the "don't know how anything works" scale, believing that U.S. bases in Germany are more of a favor to the Germans than a method of American power projection isn't at the very top, but it's up there.

For anyone seeing this post: it’s vital that you continue to at least the next post, wherein the exact reason for the assessment is revealed.

The manic pixie dream girl is just the male equivalent of the Prince Charming trope.

This is what they took from us.

Unrelated to the original posting is a musing that the producer of the show probably said “we can do it with 4 actors, we just change their name badges? Brilliant and cheap, let’s do it!”

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

You love to see it, you really do

Really should have reposted this the other day, since it’s April in America again. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Marking our 250th year by having the British King visit to remind us about the development of the rule of law, while the president reads lines presumably written by Stephen Miller about the transcendent nobility of the mythic English blood.